Plants not growing vertically

elfo777

elfo777

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Hi

This is my third grow, but I've noticed that my plants have a hard time growing vertically. Plants get bushy and short, but some of my indicas (vegged for one month) are 1 week into flowering and some of them are not even 1ft tall. (30cm)

Is this a bad thing? Im worried about yield. I mean, everyone has huge tall plants but I don't. They are fat but short. Im using a 400w hps and keep it 50cm away from plants.

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Diddy2318

Diddy2318

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I'm kinda goin through the same thing, my plant is 20 days old, but only like 7 inches tall. This is my first ever grow and I just wanted to try one for my first time, just to minimize casualties, and investment. I topped this plant already and from this pic you can see what I mean. Help me guys! Btw I have her under a 250 watt led 5000 k light that hangs 24 inches above her, as well as 2 100 watts for her sides. Overall it looks really great to me and her internode spacing is really tight. I moved my light another 6 inches higher thinking the intensity of the light was training her to stay that low and not promoting vertical growth. Thoughts? Thanks in advance guys.IMG_0187.JPG
 
elfo777

elfo777

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After two more grows since I posted this, I can safely say that this is not a problem at all. It takes a bit longer but if your plants are not growing vertically it means they are receiving enough light. You just have to be a bit more patient if you want good quality/bushy plants. By that I mean healthy, big stem, big leaf plants. Your plant is doing fine, give her some time. Heavy indicas are really short and need more veg time, trust me. I used to have plants not grow vertically, that's until I started growing sativa hybrids. Trust me, no matter how much light you use, they will stretch.

Don't worry and be patient.
 
Diddy2318

Diddy2318

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elfo777 said:
After two more grows since I posted this, I can safely say that this is not a problem at all. It takes a bit longer but if your plants are not growing vertically it means they are receiving enough light. You just have to be a bit more patient if you want good quality/bushy plants. By that I mean healthy, big stem, big leaf plants. Your plant is doing fine, give her some time. Heavy indicas are really short and need more veg time, trust me. I used to have plants not grow vertically, that's until I started growing sativa hybrids. Trust me, no matter how much light you use, they will stretch.

Don't worry and be patient.
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Will do man. She has already started coming up. She's about 10 inches tall and has exploded out all around her. I think I need to transplant. good signs
 
Diddy2318

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Craigson said:
Just spread em out or scrog em.
I topped then View attachment 3952738 trained my blueberry super short w a flat canopy.
Theyre only about 8-10" tall.
75 days vegged.
Pic taken at day 5 flower.
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Yea i think I'm gonna take this same route to my plant. She looks pretty healthy and I give her a haircut yesterday to remove some of the older fan leaves that wasn't getting any light and to open up opportunities for more light to penetrate my canopy. She has 5-6 nodes per branch at only a little over 8 inches tall and I tied up branches down with weed eater string. LUL
 
Weed-noob

Weed-noob

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elfo777 said:
Hi

This is my third grow, but I've noticed that my plants have a hard time growing vertically. Plants get bushy and short, but some of my indicas (vegged for one month) are 1 week into flowering and some of them are not even 1ft tall. (30cm)

Is this a bad thing? Im worried about yield. I mean, everyone has huge tall plants but I don't. They are fat but short. Im using a 400w hps and keep it 50cm away from plants.

sry for english
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Beautiful plants man! What soil are you using?
 
elfo777

elfo777

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Im using supersoil but I couldn't find the same brands here in my country, so I made my own recipe trying to be as close as possible to the original. I used worm humus, blood meal for nitrogen; bat guano, seabird guano and fish meal for PK, dolomite lime, epsom salts for cal/mag and PH balance. Seaweed extract for misting every week or so. I only used 1/3 of what the label said to make my soil as varied and rich as possible, only used 100% of recommended dose with worm humus. My plants were very close to overfert butit worked. The soil was really hot, but it is very easy and less annoying to grow like this.

To be honest I had no idea what I was doing but it turned out nicely.

The flavor was what sealed the deal for me, much better than using liquid nutrients. Once I dried my plants, the flavor was already good. I also used bloom stimulator (delta 9) from cannabiogen.

Inoculating with mycorhizae will make your plants more resistant and I noticed they grow healthier and faster.
 
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